Energetic trade-offs between immunity and reproduction in male Japanese Quail (Coturnix coturnix)

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology

Volumn 307, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 479-487

  Boughton, Raoul K ^a,b   Bridge, Eli S ^a   Schoech, Stephan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b ARCHBOLD BIOLOGICAL STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY MASS; COTURNIX; ENERGY METABOLISM; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; ORCHIECTOMY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY MASS INDEX; COTURNIX; CYTOKINES; ENERGY METABOLISM; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; IMMUNITY; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; REPRODUCTION; TESTOSTERONE;

AVES; COTURNIX; COTURNIX COTURNIX; COTURNIX JAPONICA; PHASIANIDAE;

EID: 34548739594     PISSN: 19325223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.402     Document Type: Article

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